On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:38:35AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> I dare say that every VTR on the market now is dual-standard. Each and every
> one. Even my bottom-range Luma mono video bought last year supports NTSC
> playback. It won't play EP tapes, though, so I had to shell out for a stereo
> JVC later on, too. =/
Yeah but do US VCRs do PAL...
>
> However, these won't help in any way when you've got an NTSC signal which is
> not on a tape. OTOH, the more expensive TV sets now often have NTSC support.
> If you may obtain an RGB signal, thpough, that is always the way to go, since
> every TV made in the last decade and most TVs from the preceding one will
> support RGB.
If you're talking about the SCART connector, I've not seen any TVs or
VCRs here that have them. (Not that I've been going around the stores
looking for it though...) That's also a European thing. If I had a VCR
with RGB out, that'd be a lot better because I could hook it up to my
projector. (And I've been trying to get an NTSC decoder board for my RGB
switcher on ebay for months now; keep getting "sniped" at the last minute,
and forgetting to be there at the right time to do that myself.)
I did get a DVD player with RGB out (that's a very rare feature here;
usually they have YCbCr instead.) It's a lousy player in most other
ways but at least I get the full resolution on my projector. It doesn't
have a SCART connector either; separate RCA plugs for the three signals.
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